tether-ball.org
An in-progress experimental website exploring history, memory, and archive practices. The text imagines counter-factual origins of the blacktop game tetherball. The website is presented as belonging to an organization dedicated to recording and preserving tetherball history.
tether-ball.org also enacts real archival practices by collecting different ‘true’ or external sources of tetherball information from around the web. In this way, the website attempts to explore how history, memory, archive, and knowledge is collected and read on the internet in particular.
The website flows between facetiousness, ‘trolling,’ and serious interrogations of the progress and record of history.
An in-progress experimental website exploring history, memory, and archive practices. The text imagines counter-factual origins of the blacktop game tetherball. The website is presented as belonging to an organization dedicated to recording and preserving tetherball history.
tether-ball.org also enacts real archival practices by collecting different ‘true’ or external sources of tetherball information from around the web. In this way, the website attempts to explore how history, memory, archive, and knowledge is collected and read on the internet in particular.
The website flows between facetiousness, ‘trolling,’ and serious interrogations of the progress and record of history.
Sea of Objects
A MUD created in collaboration with Wiley Wiggins under the supervision of Danny Snelson at UCLA.
Sea of Objects is text-based multi-user roleplaying game set on the ‘GEMS Luxury Sea Steading Utopia.’ Users may interact with each other, explore the seastead structure, or create and destroy the objects that populate the utopia. The game explores questions of community management and emergent forms of interactivity.
A MUD created in collaboration with Wiley Wiggins under the supervision of Danny Snelson at UCLA.
Sea of Objects is text-based multi-user roleplaying game set on the ‘GEMS Luxury Sea Steading Utopia.’ Users may interact with each other, explore the seastead structure, or create and destroy the objects that populate the utopia. The game explores questions of community management and emergent forms of interactivity.
An Ethnographic Survey of the Mutiple Origins of the Tetherball
The work that inspired the creation of tether-ball.org. “An Ethnographic Survey” explores invented origins of the blacktop game tetherball in a facetiously academic format.
The work that inspired the creation of tether-ball.org. “An Ethnographic Survey” explores invented origins of the blacktop game tetherball in a facetiously academic format.
QuestQuest
A Twine game created in collaboration with Ryan Stevens.
Taking Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey as it’s staring point, QuestQuest is both a playable product and a set of instructions for the player to create their own version. The game weaves seemingly disparate stories together to reflect on the different elements of the heroes journey.
A Twine game created in collaboration with Ryan Stevens.
Taking Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey as it’s staring point, QuestQuest is both a playable product and a set of instructions for the player to create their own version. The game weaves seemingly disparate stories together to reflect on the different elements of the heroes journey.
Over Power
An RPG played over Zoom, Over Power explores communication in a dystopian, socially distanced future. The attached file contains instructions on how to play the game.
An RPG played over Zoom, Over Power explores communication in a dystopian, socially distanced future. The attached file contains instructions on how to play the game.
The Museum and Archive’s Holding Department
A Twine game exploring museum and memory in a dystopian future, The Museum and Archive’s Holding Department positions the player as a maintenance officer tasked with erasing inaccurate, misleading history from the record.
A Twine game exploring museum and memory in a dystopian future, The Museum and Archive’s Holding Department positions the player as a maintenance officer tasked with erasing inaccurate, misleading history from the record.
LA Noir
A Twine game that riffs off of the noir genre, tasking the player with reconstructing the details of a missing person’s case, and not getting killed in the process. LA Noir also plays with of questions ethical policing and player autonomy.
A Twine game that riffs off of the noir genre, tasking the player with reconstructing the details of a missing person’s case, and not getting killed in the process. LA Noir also plays with of questions ethical policing and player autonomy.
darkfic
An automatically generated poetry experiment created using excerpts from the author’s personal journal entries, Club Penguin fanfic, and Capablanca’s Fundamentals of Chess. “darkfic” is aired with instructions for readers to create their own version.
An automatically generated poetry experiment created using excerpts from the author’s personal journal entries, Club Penguin fanfic, and Capablanca’s Fundamentals of Chess. “darkfic” is aired with instructions for readers to create their own version.
Pong and Prejudice
An experimental video project, “Pong and Prejudice” is a screen recording of a long session of pong playing in which the player loses over and over again. Set to the soundtrack from the 2004 Pride and Prejudice movie, the video meditates on the nonlinear enemies-to friends-to lovers relationship that difficult video games cultivate with players.
An experimental video project, “Pong and Prejudice” is a screen recording of a long session of pong playing in which the player loses over and over again. Set to the soundtrack from the 2004 Pride and Prejudice movie, the video meditates on the nonlinear enemies-to friends-to lovers relationship that difficult video games cultivate with players.
the magic of life
An automatically generated poetry experiment, created using transcriptions of low-viewer Twitch streams. The poem is also paired with instructions for readers to create their own version.
An automatically generated poetry experiment, created using transcriptions of low-viewer Twitch streams. The poem is also paired with instructions for readers to create their own version.
Burn Alive: A teen-witch inspired Fiasco Playset
A playable set of instructions for the role-playing game Fiasco, “Burn Alive” takes generic inspiration from movies about teen witches (broadly construed), such as The Craft, Jennifer’s Body, Carrie, Heathers, and The Witches of Eastwick.
A playable set of instructions for the role-playing game Fiasco, “Burn Alive” takes generic inspiration from movies about teen witches (broadly construed), such as The Craft, Jennifer’s Body, Carrie, Heathers, and The Witches of Eastwick.
